Lighting a Billion Lives
Submitted by Live Earth on 27 October, 2008 - 18:21
Live Earth is proud to partner with TERI's Lighting a Billion Lives campaign for Live Earth India in Mumbai, December 7th, 2008.
Lighting a Billion Lives is a distribution campaign organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an organization that aims to develop solutions to fight global problems in the fields of "energy, environment and current patterns of development, which are largely unsustainable."
Together with your help as a Friend of Live Earth, Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) will be able to distribute solar lanterns and flashlights to rural communities that lack modern and clean sources of light.
Dr. R.K. Pachauri, who is currently the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007, is the director general of TERI and has a great passion for developing new ways of environmental improvement and sustainability. His devotion to the cause was discussed the global climate emergency and his CGI Commitment entitled "Light a Billion Lives:" to bring light to one million people in India by replacing kerosene and paraffin lanterns with solar power lighting devices.
Through his campaign, local entrepreneurs are encouraged to create the lanterns for distribution to their own rural communities, for whom kerosene is the predominant fuel for lighting. Most workers and community members work off of the suns light and hazardous kerosene, but the new solar lanterns that have CFL's as well as LEDs. This duel system brightens the lives of one billion people and provides a better lifestyle as well.
What a fantastic response to
What a fantastic response to the combined needs for practical lighting solutions for rural Indian people and, to keep the planet cool without more coal fired power stations, more nuclear stations, more pollution and more wires across the country side. India is making the right moves at the right time in the right direction. Happy Dilwali to TERI and your billion or more friends in India!
Acacia and Peter
K7 Adventures
Australia
Great, great idea, for
Great, great idea, for Environment and Quality of Life!
What a marvelous moves for
What a marvelous moves for rural Indian to protect the planet cool. If this moves can be affected our country and over the world, there must be billions people can be obtained their beautiful lifes.
I'm really proud of you!
Pinky Wong
Macao, China
This idea could be applied to
This idea could be applied to the continent of Africa also. Not only that but there are very rural areas of the north American continent that this would be beneficial.
WOW! A phenomenal
WOW! A phenomenal idea...let's support this all the way!
Good one .. but the website
Good one .. but the website above I quoted is indeed good too.
http://www.humaninfections.or
http://www.humaninfections.org/globalwarming
This foundation is one of the upcoming foundation from India, that took a major initiative to support global warming foundation. I am ignited to know, how many of you know about the same?
I like the initiative very
I like the initiative very much and I must admit that it is a cause that is very important.
As a member of the NGO Buddhist lay organisation Soka Gakkai International, in India better known as Bharat Soka Gakkai, I think it would be a good idea to team up with SGI or BSG. Moreover, since the president of SGI, Daisaku Ikeda stresses the importance of durable, alternative energy. He addressed this issue several times in his annual peace proposals.
For more information about SGI and what SGI does for the global community, please visit www.sgi.org
greetings,
André de Wit
The Netherlands